~ says, "Just call me 'Chris' if you like easy names or "the guy with the eye" if you prefer descriptions. Just suggestions. It makes no difference to me. Whatever comes to mind will do just as well."

brief exchange between mother & son

Mom, I don’t know if I can take it. If Eva goes to school in Paris … she’s almost certainly going to find some other person to fall in love with — and, how am I going to compete? I couldn’t afford to fly over there and kick someone’s ass — if I was a violent, possessive person.

MOTHER

No child of mine would ever do such a thing. But, she’s not going to fall in love with someone else. Don’t you know that “absence makes the heart grow fonder“?